* Thus wrote Sandip Bhattacharya:
> This stumped me badly in my present project. Is this a bug or a feature in
> PHP? I am trying to split a string into two, where only one half (and the
> delimiter) is present.
>
>
> IN PERL
> ==================================
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat s1.pl
> @t = split(/,/ , "a,b");
> $len = $#t + 1;
> print "$len\n";
> @t = split(/,/, "a,");
> $len = $#t + 1;
> print "$len\n";
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] sql]$ perl s1.pl
> 2
> 1
>
>
> IN PHP
> =======================
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat s1.php
> <?php
> print count(split(',', 'a,b'))."\n";
> print count(split(',', 'a,'))."\n";
> ?>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] sql]$ php -q s1.php
> 2
> 2
split in php isn't the same as perl's split, there is preg_split()
which you can use:
$results = preg_split('/,/','a,', -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
print(count($results)); // outputs: 1
Curt
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